Springsteen releases song bashing Trump; Gutfeld fires back with ZINGER for the ages

Legendary rocker Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen has never been shy about his liberal views and has often worked them into some of his biggest hits, like “Born in the U.S.A.,” for example.

Well, Springsteen has been an outspoken critic of current President Donald Trump — totally not surprising given the fact his is the majority opinion of progressive Hollywood — and he’s finally decided to put him on blast in his latest tune, “That’s What Makes Us Great.”

“So Bruce Springsteen has released a new protest song that condemns the spread of radical, violent jihadism around the world,” he began, tongue firmly in cheek. “I kid. It’s an anti-Donald Trump song. I mean, why wouldn’t it be?”

The host also criticized the line “love can conquer hate” as it means “the other side” is “hateful,” which Gutfeld said encapsulates “the real lie of leftism. They preach love, but they deem you evil.”

Here’s a few more snippets from Gutfeld’s monologue worth a read:

But it’s not Bruce’s fault that there aren’t any truly radical protest singers. You just don’t get rewarded for saying what upsets your peers. Springsteen risks nothing. He only echoes the approved assumptions of everyone in entertainment, and the reward, of course, is pure validation.

It’s funny, Donald Trump may connect more with the average American than Bruce, and he’s a billionaire.

I truly long for a real rebellious rocker who actually rages against the machine that he’s part of. It’s not Springsteen. He’s now just Dan Rather set to music. It’s too bad, Bruce had some really good songs. I loved “Piano Man.”

Anyway, either that or “Uptown Girl.”

This isn’t to say that Springsteen doesn’t have the right to musically speak his mind and share his thoughts and opinions.

Isn’t art, particularly music, all about self-expression and originality? Aren’t people searching for music with substance, lyrics and melodies that cascade together in a perfect mix to produce an emotional storm and encourage intellectual reflection?

That’s what it used to be about, but these days all that matters is hashtag activism, which is nothing more than a meter the current culture uses to judge whether or not a person is cool and “woke,” or altogether irrelevant.

Lieutenant Colonel West served 22 years in the United States Army and was elected to serve in the United States Congress in 2010. Allen is a Fox News Contributor and author of Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom.